Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly (Picture: David Fincher for Entertainment Weekly)

Ben Affleck has been snapped hugging Rosamund Pike’s corpse in a disturbing new photo from Gone Girl. The pair, who star in the forthcoming thriller as Nick and Amy Dunne, have been featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s new issue. David Fincher is directing the film from Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel. Flynn, who used to be a writer for Entertainment Weekly, adapted the book into a screenplay herself. She said: ‘There was something thrilling about taking this piece of work that I’d spent about two years painstakingly putting together with all its eight million Lego pieces and take a hammer to it and bash it apart and reassemble it into a movie.’ The film charts the breakdown of the couple’s marriage which takes a macabre turn when Amy vanishes on the couple’s fifth wedding anniversary. Gone Girl, which also stars Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Missi Pyle and Casey Wilson, is released on October 3. Read more about Gone Girl in Entertainment Weekly here